The proliferation of developments in digital technology makes choosing the right method of
digitizing resources an increasingly complex process for information organizations. This …

Historical document collections are a valuable resource for human history. This paper
proposes a novel digital image binarization scheme for low quality historical documents …

The primary source materials for humanists come in many data forms, and the digital capture
of that data needs to be carefully considered in relation to its formats and the materials that …

ICSTI and CENDI have been interested in electronic archiving and other issues related to
the management of digital information since 1996. In 1998, a synopsis of relevant projects …

Large collections of scanned documents (books and journals) are now available in digital
libraries. The most common method for retrieving relevant information from these collections …

In recent years there have been a range of metadata specifications and frameworks
developed to support digital preservation activities. These range from formats that are …

With an increasing amount of information being digitized or directly created and
subsequently existing only electronically, and coupled with an ever increasing variety of file …

This book focuses on the development and management of a digital library. The “digital
library” subject domain includes topics and technologies that change with every …

Disasters come in all shapes and sizes. Bad things can happen to good digital resources—
from floods and fires to hackers and computer crashes. Both library staff and customers are …

This paper presents how Self-Organizing Maps and especially Kohonen maps can be
applied to digital images of ancient collections in the perspective of valorization and …